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- As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
- Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended. - Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), The Double Gallant, Prologue
- There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
- Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
- Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
- Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)
- Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), The World is Too Much With Us
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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